Table of Contents

Wayne K. Chapman - Introduction
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Sources: “The Priest’s Soul” in Ancient Legends of Ireland (ed. Lady Wilde, 1887) and in Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (ed. W. B. Yeats, 1888)
Yeats’s Prefaces

The Hour-Glass in Prose (1903–1904; first version)
The Hour-Glass in Prose (1903–1937; incorporating Yeats’s revisions)
The Hour-Glass in Verse (1913–1916; first “mixed” version)
The Hour-Glass in Verse (1913–1953; final “mixed” version)
Notes (in two sections, Prose and Verse Versions)
Appendix A: “The Reform of the Theatre” by W. B. Yeats
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews

About the Author

Wayne K. Chapman is Professor in Modern British, Anglo-Irish, & American Literature at Clemson University.